Amy Lennox has Tea With Wilma chatting about David Bowie and the new musical LAZARUS
You are about to star in the UK premiere of LAZARUS at the Kings Cross Theatre. What is the show about and what attracted you to the part you are playing? It’s loosely based on the sci – fi novel ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis- a sort of sequel. Its hard to […]
REVIEW: CODE 2021 (Secret Studio Lab) ★★★★
If you’re ever looking for something thrilling to do in London, Secret Studio Lab has the answer you’re looking for. Returning after sold-out immersive productions of SE7EN in Hong Kong and a secret Tarantino Adaptation this summer in London, both adapted and directed by Richard Crawford. Crawford now returns with another immersive experience in the […]
REVIEW: NO MAN IS AN ISLAND / TETRIS (Dance Umbrella 2016 Festival) ★★★★
This double bill of shows is being performed at Artsdepot, which opened in 2004 and has won a number of awards. It is an excellent, comfortable venue with an audience largely comprised of families with young children. No Man Is An Island is performed by Erik Kaiel (also the choreographer) and Joseph Simon. Two male performers, one […]
REVIEW: SHOPPING AND F**CKING (Lyric Hamersmith) ★★★★
Mark Ravehill’s first full-length play, Shopping and F**king made it’s debut in 1996 at the Royal Court Upstairs, before embarking on national and international tours. When first produced Shopping and F**king received mixed reviews due to it’s themes of sexual violence, including a depiction of underage male rape. While more positive reviews commented on the […]
REVIEW: FOOTLOOSE (Sunderland Empire) ★★★★
Footloose tells the story of Ren McCormack, who leaves Chicago with his newly separated mother to move in with his uncle in Bomont, West Virginia. Ren clashes with the locals, especially Rev Moore, who oversees the town council. Following a fatal accident, dancing is banned in Bomont, but Ren takes his friends, including Rev Moore’s […]
REVIEW: THE DRESSER (Duke of York’s Theatre) ★★★★
Ronald Harwood’s 1980 play THE DRESSER is based on his real life past, working as a dresser on tour with Sir Donald Wolfit during the war. The play was well received in both the West End and on Broadway and is now back in London starring Reece Shearsmith and Ken Stott. Now playing at the […]
DIRTY DANCING returns to the West End this Christmas
Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage, is currently wowing audiences around the country on its UK tour. The show has announced it will play a season in the West End this Christmas, mambo-ing into the Phoenix Theatre for thirty performances only from 6 – 31 December 2016. Starring Lewis Griffiths as ‘Johnny Castle’, […]
Check out these pictures of RAGTIME at the Charing Cross Theatre
Earl Carpenter, who starred in the West End and on Broadway as The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera and Inspector Javert in Les Miserables, and West End star Anita Louise Combe, Tessie Tura in Gypsy at the Savoy Theatre and both Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly in Chicago, are to head the cast […]
REVIEW: STRAIGHT TO THE HEART (Above The Arts) ★★★★
New York Times editor Ken Jaworowski recently showcased his work at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and now brings three of his short plays to London’s West End for a series of lunch time performances. PULSE tells the story of three separate characters, Charles, Ron and Diane. Charles (played by Alistair Brown) has grown up in […]
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA celebrates 30 years in London’s West End
On Monday 10 October 2016, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA celebrated thirty years playing in London’s West End. Stars and special guests attended the charity gala performance in aid of The Music in Secondary Schools Trust. Tickets were appropriately priced at just £19.86 for some seats, giving a tip to the hat to the year the […]